The killing happened Friday afternoon in the east Las Vegas Valley. Two suspects have been taken into custody.
Crime
A lawsuit alleges that an inmate at a prison near Las Vegas who was bludgeoned to death by his cellmate had made requests to transfer out of his cell due to safety concerns.
The shooting occurred in the 200 block of East Tropicana Avenue, near Koval Lane, on Friday.
The Metropolitan Police Department said in a September press conference that he is suspected in 29 burglaries in the Spring Mountain Road corridor since June.
Andres Mendoza, 24, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on suspicion of charges related to unlawful contact with a minor, according to CCSD Police.
A federal jury awarded about $2.1 million in damages Thursday to a Las Vegas man who claimed three police officers subjected him to excessive force in 2001.
Robert Justice said Thursday that he “was an idiot” for landing himself in middle of two high-profile Las Vegas criminal cases.
The mother of Takara Davis has filed a lawsuit in Clark County District Court against the driver of the car that struck the 13-year-old on Jan. 4 while she and a group of schoolmates attempted to cross Durango Drive near Nevso Drive.
Anthony Carleo’s gambling losses were almost as big as his mouth. Both drew the attention of authorities and eventually cost him his freedom 50 days after the Bellagio casino was robbed of $1.5 million in gambling chips in one of the largest heists in recent Southern Nevada history.
Las Vegas police late Wednesday arrested the son of Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge George Assad in connection with December’s $1.5 million Bellagio casino heist. Anthony Michael Carleo, 29, was arrested after he met undercover officers to sell high-value chips taken in the heist, law enforcement sources said.
Dominick Harriman on Wednesday testified his father tried to kill him over an insurance scam and sexual affairs. Harriman said in a preliminary hearing in Las Vegas Justice Court that his father, Keith, wanted him dead because he told insurance fraud investigators his father’s $160,000 burglary loss claim was a scam to feed his crack cocaine addiction.
A Las Vegas woman was sentenced Wednesday to 27 months in prison for submitting fraudulent mortgage loan applications in 2004 and 2005. Gail Bilyeu also was ordered her to pay about $1 million in restitution to five federally insured financial institutions.
The Nevada Supreme Court responded succinctly Wednesday to O.J. Simpson’s request for a new hearing in his robbery case, saying: “Rehearing denied. It is so ordered.”
The killing happened Friday afternoon in the east Las Vegas Valley. Two suspects have been taken into custody.
A lawsuit alleges that an inmate at a prison near Las Vegas who was bludgeoned to death by his cellmate had made requests to transfer out of his cell due to safety concerns.
The shooting occurred in the 200 block of East Tropicana Avenue, near Koval Lane, on Friday.
The Metropolitan Police Department said in a September press conference that he is suspected in 29 burglaries in the Spring Mountain Road corridor since June.
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